# Herschel Walker (need I say more?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 7, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861 "2022-10-07T01:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/161 "2022-10-20T17:47:23Z")
Herschel Walker is on the case! > **[‘Tooning Out the News’ Prank-Calls Herschel Walker: ‘I Wanted to Report a Crime’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/tooning-out-the-news-prank-calls-herschel-walker-i-wanted-to-report-a-crime)** > > We can confirm that the Stephen Colbert-produced animated news show actually got the Georgia Senate candidate on the phone to ask for help solving a crime. > Tooning Out the News has done it again. After getting Rudy Giuliani on the phone–twice–to troll him about various controversies at the height of the 2020 presidential election, the Stephen Colbert-produced Comedy Central show managed to ensnare Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker this week, less than a month before the midterms. > In the wake of Walker brandishing a seemingly fake police badge during a debate this week, the show’s fake news anchor James Smartwood – voiced by creator R.J. Fried – decided to report that his laptop had been stolen from his car the night before and call the “police” during the broadcast… ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/162 "2022-10-26T18:06:01Z")
Anybody surprised? > **[New Woman Alleges Herschel Walker Urged Her to Have Abortion](https://www.thedailybeast.com/second-woman-set-to-reveal-herschel-walker-abortion-claim-with-gloria-allred)** > > High-profile attorney Gloria Allred hosted a press conference Wednesday with an anonymous woman who says she had an abortion at Herschel Walker's urging. > Attorney Gloria Allred announced that she is holding a press conference Wednesday with another woman who says she was in a relationship with Herschel Walker and that he helped her have abortion… ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/163 "2022-10-26T18:10:12Z")
He should get an honorary OB/GYN badge. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/164 "2022-10-26T18:21:02Z")
That Walker may still make it and Fetterman may still fail makes some wonder if the whole “letting the people decide” thing really is all it’s cracked up to be. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/165 "2022-10-26T23:06:08Z")
Did you mean to say “DIShonorary”? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/166 "2022-10-26T23:25:18Z")
Badges? I ain’t got no badges. I don’t need no steenkin’ badges! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/167 "2022-10-26T23:39:44Z")
You, maybe not, but the running back dude does have a badge, and it is likely quite whiffy. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/168 "2022-10-27T03:37:33Z")
I’ve heard some very ugly mutterings that seem to indicate a pivot on the whole abortion issue from a certain group of white males in various dark corners both IRL and online. I’m not saying this is anything like an intentional pivot, but more the depths some individuals on the Republican (more Qpublican) side will sink too in order to excuse their own side. Since I feel honestly slightly skeevy just typing it, I’ll put it in blur-vision if you don’t want to see it. “He shouldn’t have paid for those ladies to have an abortion. And even so, they made the choice, the sin is on their hands. But at least it proves he’s a _MAN_ - not one of those wishy washy homosexuals!” - NOTE - disgusting and predictable slur in original I refuse to repeat even in blur-vision. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/169 "2022-10-27T19:32:10Z")
I’m not at all surprised nor particularly concerned by this pivot. Anyone who is at all convinced by this claim has already made up their mind to vote for him. As you say this is just an excuse to go on believing the things that they were going to believe anyway. Or as another poster in another thread (that I’m too lazy to look up ) said about a different excuse. “Its just a talking point that right wingers can post on facebook to convince themselves that they won the argument.” ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/170 "2022-10-27T20:30:20Z")
Nah, for as many women as he has helped get abortions, he should get some sort of recognition. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/171 "2022-10-27T22:54:58Z")
# Herschel Walker is a Feminist! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/172 "2022-10-28T11:02:05Z")
He can be one of the “elected officials” Oz was talking about in the debate. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/173 "2022-10-28T11:41:49Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Nah, for as many women as he has helped get abortions, he should get some sort of recognition. Maybe even a volume discount. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/174 "2022-10-28T13:55:32Z")
Is his apparent stupidity related to football trauma? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/175 "2022-10-28T17:37:58Z")
He has a lot of money. There is extensive historical evidence that wealth correlates directly to reduced mental function. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/176 "2022-10-29T14:03:35Z")
I now live in Wisconsin. The good news is if Walker wins, Wisconsin no longer have the most stupid member of the Senate. Ron Johnson will be in second place. The amount of money GQP PACs are throwing into this election is mind boggling. Johnson, Walker and Oz may all win because of it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/177 "2022-10-29T14:07:15Z")
Not necessarily, though Kanye West is doing his best to prove the theory. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/178 "2022-10-29T19:36:02Z")
I wanted to quote Obama. I often use the same analogy but I go with “the surgeon who’s going to operate on your mother” instead 😉 > Obama: “Some of you may not remember, but Herschel Walker was a heck of a football player… does that make him the best person to represent you?.. let’s say you’re at the airport & you see Walker & you say, Hey, there’s Herschel, Heisman winner. Let’s have him fly the plane!” ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/179 "2022-10-29T20:11:58Z")
Actually, that makes a lot of sense if the plane is an analogy for the country, as it certainly seems as though the desire among the fervent MAGA supporters is to have our country crash and burn. Now I understand the support. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861/180 "2022-10-29T23:11:54Z")
It’s an article of faith among many in this country that being successful in one thing automatically means that you can be successful in a different, unrelated field – particularly politics. And so many Trump supporters pointed to his (imaginary) success as a businessman as qualifying him for president. But voters are constantly doing this with entrepreneurs, athletes, entertainers, military officers, etc. Politics is maybe the one field of human endeavor where having served ably in the profession is seen as a demerit for advancement. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/herschel-walker-need-i-say-more/972861.md?page=10)